Talk:Tully Blanchard

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I can't find any record of Tully being an NWA World Tag Team Champion with Barry Windham. Anyone want to help out?

This is from the Solie.org NWA World Tag Team title histories page. Note that Blanchard and Windham were the NWA World Tag Team Champions about 3 years after the NWA revived them.

63.Barry Windham and Tully Blanchard 09/12/98-Lincolnton, NC 20:41 Managed by Magnum T.A. (Terry Allen)

This post:

http://nwalegends.com/fanfestforum/YaBB.pl?num=1169277939

Has a picture of them with the titles


 * Tully Blanchard is the greatest 4 horsemen their ever was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.117.49.133 (talk) 02:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yet another made-up birthplace?
I suppose that the WWE website is viewed as a reliable source, even though the WWE overall has been a party to blatantly obvious self-serving historical revisionism. A while back, I obtained a copy of Wrestling with God by Chad Bonham, which profiled born-again Christian wrestlers, including Tully. I have zero clue as to how Christian book publishers are viewed within the context of reliable sources, plus the book lists his birthplace as "Calgary, Ontario". Even so, this could provide a clue as to whether the sourced statement is bogus. The only real editing activity his father's article has received has been to include his football career. According to that, Joe Blanchard transitioned from the Calgary Stampeders to Stampede Wrestling at the same time Tully was born. That alone would tell me that WWE's claim of his being born in San Antonio is merely content for content's sake, with Wikipedia obediently parroting it. Regardless of that, there's still something called FACTUAL ACCURACY which should be heeded rather than cherry-picked at will to suit one's purposes.

Also, while on the subject of Joe Blanchard, this article describes him as "the son of wrestling promoter and former American Wrestling Association star Joe Blanchard"? Are we sure about that? Not only does OWW generally fail as an RS, I've never read much to indicate that Joe was a "star performer" or even possibly wrestled that much (if at all) in the AWA. He was the AWA's figurehead president during its dying days. Stanley Blackburn was often mentioned as himself hailing from San Antonio, so Joe could have stepped into the role out of storyline continuity. I really have no clue, though, as I'd quit paying much attention to the AWA at this point; around this time, they were being outdrawn in the Twin Cities by a bunch of Eddie Sharkey trainees wrestling in a sports bar. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  02:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmmm...now we have "a Canadian-born American retired professional wrestler". Compare that with the lead of Ted Cruz, who was also born in Calgary and whose birthplace has been the subject of much discussion, which has continued long after he dropped out of the presidential race.  Unless I missed something, it's not acknowledged in the lead of that article, though it's discussed in sufficient detail at the beginning of the article body.  In other words, is this detail really relevant enough for the lead of this article? RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  00:26, 25 June 2016 (UTC)